Techniques & Training!Practice Assignments – Complete in your sketchbook

1.Choose 3 of the 6 techniques to practice in 3” x 5” boxes. (You create these boxes with ruler!)

1. Blobs 2. Checkerboard 3. Tunnel

4. Star 5. Cuboid 6. Hellocopter

Technique 1. Op Art Shading Blobs

oTechnique 1:

Op Art Shading Blobs

• Use black colored pencil.

• Draw upward curves above the middle wave.

• Draw downward curves below the middle wave.

• Complete the entire section.

Op Art Shading Blobs

Op Art Shading Blobs

5. Complete the entire design.

Erase the "across" wave.

• Pick a group of colors you feel work well together. 

• Press harder in the corners... and as you get near the top of each bump get lighter and lighter. 

Op Art Shading Blobs

Op Art Shading Blobs

Op Art Shading Blobs

Technique 2: Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a colored pencil.

4. Color in the whole picture with alternating colors.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Op Art Checkerboard

1. Use a compass to draw 3 or 4 circles.

2. Use a ruler to draw vertical lines and horizontal lines.

3. Trace everything with a marker.

4. Colour in the whole picture with alternating colours.

Technique 3: TUNNEL

TUNNEL – STEP 2

TUNNEL – STEP 3

TUNNEL – STEPS 4 & 5

TUNNEL – STEP 6

colored pencil

TUNNEL – STEP 7

TUNNEL – FINAL STEP*SHADE : Darker in center

Technique 4: Star ( Steps 1- 5)

• In the center of the page, draw a 4 inch vertical (up and down) line.

• Now draw a 4 inch horizontal line (side to side).

• VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tESDVnNUAng&feature=related

Step 2

• Make a small mark at each 1/4 inch measurement across the length of each line starting where the lines cross.

Step 3

• From the top of the vertical line and going to the left, draw a straight line down to the mark closest to the center on the horizontal line

Step 4

• Move down the vertical (up and down) line to the next mark.

• Draw a line to the second mark moving away from the vertical line

Step 5: Lighter in center, darker around edges

Technique 5: Cuboid

Cuboid

Cuboid

8. Add colored pencil and shading.

-Lighter in front-Darker towards back.

Technique 6: Hellocopter